War footing: The Emergency Army Unit at the train station in Granada, Spain.
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Over 700 people have passed away in the nation in the past 24 hours.
Spain’s COVID-19 death toll overtook that of China on Wednesday, increasing to 3,434, after 738 people passed away over the past 24 hours, the government stated.
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The spiralling number of deaths came as Spain got in the 11 th day of an extraordinary lockdown to attempt and check the COVID-19 epidemic that has now infected 47,610 individuals, the health ministry said.
Throughout the world, only Italy now has a greater death toll than that of Spain. In China, where the virus emerged late in 2015, 3,281 people have died.
As the authorities stepped up screening, the number of cases revealed a 20 %boost on the figures for Tuesday, while the death toll revealed a 27%increase over the very same perio